Suction gas-producer.



' No. 893,604. PATENTED JULY 21, 1908.

' J'BOWEY,-J`R.

SUCTION GAS PRODUCER. APPLIUATION FILBD'SEBT 2s, w07.

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.21 Tram/5K5 PATENTED JULY 21, 1908.

J. www, JB. SUGTION GAS PRODUCER.

APPLOATXON ILB'D SEPT. 23, 1G07.

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@AN A DA.,

SUCTION GAS-ERGDCER.

Application filed September 23, 1.537.

Specncation of Letters ateint. atented July 21., 1908.

semi ne. 33eme.

To @ZZ whom [t nir/u concern.:

Be it known that l, Jon): Bou'iir, Jr., a citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Loudon. in the county oi Middlesex and Province oi' Ontario, Canada, have invented new and useful lniprm'einen'ts in Suctioi'i Gas-Producers, olI which the 'following is speciiicatiou.

My invention. relates to suction gas pro of the conical shape shown. The grato is provided with ste/rn or shalt Btl, the lower end oi. which journaled in the upper oud oi' th vv shaft Sli. The shall. 23() also has a hearing in the upper ond of the unical center i ash receptacle lis which is partly {ille-d ivi h water into which the lower end ola the producer extends to forni a water seal lor chamber. is

the ash Tho screw shalt Psi ducers in which air and Water in the Iorin oi th f f' into the sleeve .'55 and is provided g55 steam are drawn into the producer by the l' leel .'56 by which it may he suction of the piston of the engine on its turned. tu hau l-whe`el may he reached charging stroke and my object is to devise through a hr-.f d-hole lt evident that means for automatically proportioi'iing the by turning hand-wheel that the grate l5 quantity of water used to the rateof conmay he v'emniuhv adjusted to vari.' the nu v) sumption of gas and for similarly controlling nular '.cbetween it and the liioshos. the rate of elimination of the. ashes. ribed are prm'itled for In rnyapparatus I use the expansive torre automat" v rotating the grato. rthrough of the hot exhaust to operate a valve in a top o oep .cle extends the feeding water tank and also 'to effect a partial rotahopi'ier i my, though not necessarily, 75 tion of the grate of the producer. Thewater ci the pear shape shown. A charging chamflovvs through an open spiral trough in an anbei' 3 provided at the top ol' the Ytor-ding nular chamber at the top of the producer hopper 'lli-.e outlet of this charging chains where it is converted into steam before intro" ber is closed by means of an ordinary cone- I duction into the air supply. "lhus, at every shaped vaive t operatori by ineens oia so exhaust stroke of the. engine Water is nu. counter-"halanced lever A movable cover ured and a certain quantity of ashes elil (S provided of cylindrical shape which pronated and on the charging stroke the steain je into the annular trough 7 `lille-d with and air are drawn into the producer. is water to lorin a Water seal. 'lho bottoni ol 33 these operations occurat every cycle ot the the feeding' hopper projects into the. top of 3.3 engine the introduction of air and steam and the producer. vWithin the. top of the body oi' the. elimination of ashes varies with the the producer about the. feeding hopper is an speed. of the engine and consequently7 the annularchainber 8 Whichiiornis axf'aporiner. mate of production of gas varies with the derilhis chamber is rovided with an air inlet l() 35 mand of the engine which depends on its and has out et pipe il communicating 9o speed. with the ash chaniber ci the producer.

Figure l is a i'ront elevation of niy device Within chamber 8 and out of contact partly in section. Fig. 2 is a plan view of with its Walis is placed an open helical trough the saine. Fig. is an enlarged detail in ele- 9. A iunnel shaped casting 55 extends into 40 vation o'l`4 the lower part ol'- the producer Ithe interior troni without and is adapted to 95 showing the automatic shaking device. Fig. discharge into the up er end of the helical 4 is a detail in vertical section oi the lower trough. lt is evident from. this construction )art of the producer at right angles to Fig. 3. that any'water conveyed to the trough isconH `ig. 5 is an enlarged section oll the detail of versed into steam which. is subsequently the water tank and connected parts. Fig. (5 superheated by Corning into contact with the 100 is a plan View ot Fig. 5. heated walls oi the vaporizer. The air sup- [n the drawings like letters of reference ply is drawn in through the inlet l0, iningles lindicate corresponding parts in the above with. the stearn, is pre-heated, and with the figures. steam is drawn through the pipe il to the '5U l is the body of the reducer preferably ash chamber, thence passing through the 105 formed of a' steel shell lined with suitable fuel to the combustion zone of the producer.' refractory material. This producer is pro- The gases resulting from combustion cirvided at. lthe bottoni With the boshes 37 and culate between the Walls of the feeding hophelow the boshes is mounted the rotatable per and the vaporizer 8 heating the latter grate 32 preferably, though not necessarily, and preheating the fuel in the former. The 11o the exhaust of the motor operates theash eliminating means.

4; A` gas producer; asource of Water su ply therefor; a valve controlled outlet for t e Water supply; and ash eliminating means, in combination with an .internal combustion motor, means operable by the exhaust of the motor for operating said valve and said ash eliminating means, means for regulating the iioW through the Valve, and means for re' ulating the discharge of the ash eliminating means.

5. A gael-producer; 'asource of Waters-np ly; means for controlling the loW there roingand ash eliminating means, 'in combination with an internal combustioninotor; andvrneans whereby the motor operates'the ash eliminating means and the Water o ontiol at some part of each motor.

. 6. A as producer; a source of Water sup ply; an ash eliminating means, in combinal tion :with an internal combustion motor taking its gasv supply therefrom, and means whereby the' motor causes the Water to be supplied and ashes eliminated at a rate deeo'rnplete vcycle of the a feather' key and a key way connection with' the grate shaft; and a hand Wheel on the screw shaft.

'8.' A ninternal combustion motor in cornbination with a cylinder provided with an inlet at one end, connected with the exhaust of the engine, and an exhaust outlet at the other; a spindle longitudinally slidable in the cylinder; a diaphragm secured to the spindle land arranged to permit of an escape of 'as from one sidethereo to lthe other y ann a spring tending to maintain the parts in their.

normal osition.

Signe at Salt Lake City, Utah, U. S. A.,

September' 7th, 1.907.

JGHN BOWEY, Jn.

in presence of- CHAS. DE MLAY,

SrANLEY W. WADE. 

